Do You Need To Upgrade Your PC?
To get the most from your digital photographs, you need a computer in order to store and display your images, to print them, turn them into web pages, run slideshows, email them and edit them.
The great thing about computer systems is that you can expand them as you go along, adding the devices and internal components you need. But while upgrading your printer, scanner and digital camera won’t be a problem, improving other aspects of your PC’s performance might be.
In particular, if your PC is more than a couple of years old, it’s likely to have a pretty slow processor - by today’s standards, anyway. It’s possible to limp along with an old 500MHz Pentium III, but in order to work with today’s high-resolution images you really need something a lot faster. An entry-level 1GHz machine will be fine for nearly every purpose, but if you can stretch to it, a 2GHz PC will really race along, and you shouldn’t have to think about upgrading again for quite a few years to come.
Our annotated diagram on the previous page will show you what else you need to look out for when you’re planning your perfect digital photography system.
